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Netherlands Helsinki Committee

Website of the Netherlands Helsinki Committee (NHC), a non-governmental organisation promoting human rights, democracy and the rule of law in Europe and in Central Asian countries that are members of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). The NHC supports the work of international and national governmental and non-governmental organisations including the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights. Its activities include fact-finding missions, lobbying and various projects.

Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Decisions (Australia)

A free database containing full-text decisions of Australia's Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission from 1985 to 1999 when the Commission closed. The texts are selected and provided by the Commission and made available in HTML format. Decisions can be searched or browsed by case name or date. The database forms part of AustlII (the Australasian Legal Information Institute) service developed by the University of Technology in Sydney to provide public access to primary legal materials.

Ontario Human Rights Commission

Official site of the Ontario Human Rights Commission which was established in 1961 to administer Ontario's Human Rights Code. The agency is accountable to the Legislature through the Minister of Citizenship. The site provides general information about the Commission and about the various rights Ontarians are entitled to. It also contains the full-text of the Human Rights Code, annual reports of the Commission, consultation and discussion documents, policies, plain language publications and guides.

Employment Insurance Jurisprudence Library

A searchable database of Canadian insurance jurisprudence including Canadian Umpire Benefits decisions, Federal Court decisions and Supreme Court decisions along with a number of related Provincial Court and Human Rights Tribunal decisions. A collection of the most important decisions can be searched separately. Materials are carried in full-text and presented in HTML format. Help notes on searching the database are provided. The service is made freely available online by the Minister of Public Works and Government Services in Ottawa, Ontario.

Quebec Human Rights Tribunal Decisions

A CanLII database presenting all decisions of Quebec's Human Rights Tribunal since its creation in 1991; the data is supplied by the Tribunal. Simple and advanced query options are provided to search the collection. CanLII, the Canadian Legal Information Institute, is a key service providing free access to Canadian primary legal materials. The service has been designed by LexUM at the University of Montreal (using software developed by AustLII) on the initiative of the Federation of Law Societies of Canada. The site is available in both official languages of Canada, English and French.

Flyktinggruppernas och Asylkommittéernas Riksråd (FARR)

The website of the Swedish Network of Asylum and Refugee Support Groups (FARR). FARR is a voluntary national membership organisation which gives legal advice to asylum seekers and seeks to ensure that the Swedish authoritiesabide by national and international refugee law when deciding upon asylum applications. The site provides access to FARR's quarterly newsletter "Artikel 14" (Swedish only), together with asylum news, contact details for local FARR refugee and asylum seeker support groups, and advice for refugees and asylum seekers on Swedish asylum procedure and policies.

Index to 19th Century French Political Trials from the Labadie Collection

Index to a collection of more than 400 verbatim reports of trials against leaders of revolts, journalists and their editors, which took place in France during the 19th century. The reports are part of the Labadie Collection at the Special Collections Library of the University of Michigan and the index is published on the Library's website.

Menneskeret.dk

Online resource produced by the Danish Centre for Human Rights in cooperation with a number of Danish NGOs. The site provides news on human rights issues collected from Radio Denmark, the national daily newspapers, Berlingske Tidende, Information, Politiken and the weekly Weekend Nu. It includes links to other national and international organisations working on human rights issues. The site is available in Danish or English.

International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs

Website of the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA), an independent international membership organisation, that aims to promote "indigenous peoples' human rights, self -determination, right to territory, control of land and resources, cultural integrity, and the right to development." The site provides information about human rights issues, indigenous issues, abstracts of IWGIA publications, and links to other organisations and institutions working with indigenous people and development issues. The site is available in English and Spanish.

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